[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] i915: Fix bug where screen brightness is not restored

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 18:42 -0800, Alex Davis wrote:
> From: Alex Davis<alex14641 at yahoo.com>
> 
> This patch fixes an issue where the screen would remain dark when
> 
> a key was pressed when the laptop lid was reopened or after the
> laptop had gone into power-save mode.

[cross-posting to intel-gfx]

Keith, also note that Alex and I did respond to your request to test the
already committed patch "drm/i915/panel: Always record the backlight
level again (but cleverly)".  We both determined that patch does *not*
fix the problem.  Alex's patch below does fix it.

Matthew, any comment on the question that I fielded?:

>> Why does intel_panel_disable_backlight even want to set the
>> brightness to 0 anyway?...  Its only caller is just about to turn
>> off power to the panel.  Is that call to
>> intel_panel_{,actually_}set_backlight(dev, 0) really necessary
>> or useful on *any* systems?

 -Kamal


> It seems that there are a number of people with different machines
> that have this problem:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/872652
> https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/stuck-backlight
> and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41926
> 
> This patch is against Linux 3.1
> 
> Putting printk's in ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c showed that 
> intel_get_brightness was being called after the panel was disabled,
> which caused a 0 to be saved as the value to restore the brightness. 
> intel_panel_disable_backlight merely sets the brightness to 0. Commenting
> out this call allows the correct brightness value to be saved.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Davis <alex14641 at yahoo.com>
> Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
> -----
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> index a9e0c7b..6f56676 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> @@ -262,8 +262,6 @@ void intel_panel_disable_backlight(struct drm_device *dev)
>                 dev_priv->backlight_level = intel_panel_get_backlight(dev);
>                 dev_priv->backlight_enabled = false;
>         }
> -
> -       intel_panel_set_backlight(dev, 0);
>  }
> 
>  void intel_panel_enable_backlight(struct drm_device *dev)
> 
>  
> 
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